Last night’s nonsense and unprofessional journalistic approach to the speech by Governor Jindal exhibited by the MSNBC team demonstrates the lack of objectivity in the media today. The Republican Party clearly has another hurdle to return as a prominent party. The media is necessary to getting your story and image out to the public. When the outlets selectively make it difficult to get your image and message out, not only the party suffers but America suffers. While last night’s show was a commentary show, a minimum of respect is necessary to allow a fair presentation. Listen carefully to the MSNBC personnel coment and laugh as Jindal walks toward the microphone. The man said nothing and already the MSNBC folks were making fun of and demeaning the man. Where was the professionalism? Even in a commentary show, comment should be withheld until after the man has spoken. Governor Jindal did not purport himself and the Republican party well with his speech – it was a downright awful presentation, but he should have been allowed to fail without the stage being set for failure prior to his speaking.

If the Republican Party does not yet see its biggest challenge, it has no chance of recovery. The main stream media has all but become totally corrupt in selecting and slanting the news. It materially controls free speech and a free electoral process. It is getting harder to find news, nothing but the news, to be informed of national and world events affecting this country and our lives.

The fourth estate as it was once called was given freedom of the press to insure its role as an independent check and balance to government actions. When the fourth estate uses that freedom of the press to turn public opinion with often doctored reporting and suppresses news that does not support the media’s agenda, then the fourth estate has lost its right to freedom of the press. Along with that right, comes the responsibility to be the purveyor of truth.

It is clear that the left in this country has co-opted the main stream media. MSNBC has clearly become the Obama house organ. What can be done about it? This twisting of the news for political agenda is not new. Way back at the formation of this country, Alexander Hamilton had about enough with newspapers in the tank for Thomas Jefferson, that he co-founded a newspaper to get his message and his party’s message out (The Federalists) – it was the New York Post founded in 1801 as a daily publication. Yes the same Post of today. Oddly enough it was founded to combat the media’s one sided adoration of the new Democratic Party and its leader, Thomas Jefferson.

The Republican Party needs to find people who have the wherewithal to buy a major newspaper or a network and bring in real journalists. These people should be respected balanced journalists who understand that the message is truth and not agenda. I am not suggesting that this newly acquired media achieve an agenda. If it did, then nothing would be made right. The fourth estate would still be unworthy to hold the right of freedom of the press. If it has to have an agenda, then it must be the agenda of truth without the partisan diatribe. The agenda should be “All the news that is fit to print” – wait that is taken and it has been seriously abused by the New York Times. The Times should be sued for false advertising.

Republican Party! Unless and until you can get your message out you cannot bring balance back to this great land. Michael Steele, start the process of finding balanced people who will assume control over some of the failing agenda driven papers and networks, so that a message of truth will be delivered. Only then will the Republican Party be able to get a fair chance to serve the public.

Why is the Housing and Urban Development website being used to ferment social upheaval?

If you don’t believe me take the two minute internet tour. The instructions follow. Even though there is a rather weak, cover your butt, disclaimer we know exactly what is intended. This abuse of government power must be stopped or the current administration will become more brazen. There is an agenda to this administration and the current Congress and it is to move this country squarely into socialism. If you want this government making your decision for you then do nothing, otherwise get the word out and notify your representatives in Congress and in your statehouse. Notify your friends – the ones who wish to think for themselves.

The two minute tour can be followed here:

1. Using the internet go to the HUD website: www.hud.gov
2. On the left hand side of the page under Communities click on Organizing3. On the right hand side under Related Information click on the Citizens Handbook4. After reading the rather weak and perfunctory disclaimer click on: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/
5. Under the Citizen’s Handbook on the right hand side click on the Citizen’s Library
6. Now click on books on action organizing

Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, does not want to drill for oil off our coasts and will reverse the Bush Administration’s position on off shore drilling. He prefers wind and solar. I also prefer wind and solar, but I understand that effectively creating a new national energy infrastructure with additional and rebuilt power grids is tentative at best in the next ten years. Why do we need to gamble on getting it right with a massive shift on source energy and delivery, when we can have that domestic off shore oil as a security blanket? If we were to displace off shore oil with domestic wind and solar, we could become an oil exporter and actually change the balance of trade deficit to a trade surplus.

Regardless of what he says, no matter the excuses he makes, the public interest calls for domestic offshore drilling now – it is clearly in our national security interest.

If we drilled for and sold our off shore oil on the open market, we could blunt the sale of oil by nations like Iran, Russia, and Venezuela. We could actually use oil as a foreign policy tool. We need all the edge we can get. Yes, right now the price of oil is down, but where will it be in five years? The Democrats put us in a bind over the recent oil price hike, with decisions that made it difficult for us to have more domestic oil on hand when we needed it. It has been the war against off shore drilling by democrats that has left us defenseless against foreign oil. The balance of power in the world will be in our favor if we have our own oil to use and possibly sell. If we are successful in switching to renewable power generation, other nations may not switch as successfully. Other nations will still need oil – it is better that they get it from us than from nations hostile to us. In any event, wind and solar source energy will be a fifty year national change over.

The Obama administration is so intent on shifting to green energy to save the world, that they are gambling our near term ten year future on an untried and unproven massive change on source energy and source energy delivery to power our entire nation. Why not drill just in case? Keep in mind that both wind and solar are harvested where the energy grid is not. We need to build out our energy grid to deliver the wind and solar source energy through the existing grid for delivery to businesses and homes. This necessary grid project alone is massive and wrought with a not in my backyard mentality (NIMBY). Shutting out the mining for and drilling for domestic oil resources located off shore is foolish and myopic. Gambling on adequately replacing our foreign oil with solar and wind in the next ten years is not only foolish, but arrogantly foolhardy. It is national security negligence.

Updated: March 23, 2010

The two most important issues facing this nation are now very clear. These two issues have now risen past all other issues previously highlighted in this blog. The first big issue is:

We now have a House of Representatives where the progressives hold just about all committee chairmanships; A Senate with progressives from both parties holding key committee positions; we have an extreme progressive as Speaker of the House; an extreme progressive as Senate Majority Leader; and an extreme progressive, near socialist, as President of the United States. I use the term progressive, because I believe the progressives have taken over the Democratic Party – it is certainly not the party of John F. Kennedy and not the party that my mother and father admired. To digress a bit, just take a good look at the advisors with which our President surrounds himself. These are for the most part radical revolutionaries with the pedigrees to match.

Their agenda is simple, provide as much social legislation without regard to the debt and to our ability to pay the bill. This is the first big issue facing America. The means used to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act demonstrated that this group of progressives believes that the end, that they seek, justifies the means with which they achieve the end.

They stopped at nothing in their effort to push a piece of legislation by going outside the rules of each House of Congress, by buying votes from legislators with our money, by a complete obfuscation of the true facts about the bill when informing or rather ill informing the public. They wrote provisions into the bill to force the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide a dollar amount that was on the surface revenue neutral, even a debt reducer, when it is neither. They did this by double counting supposed savings in a number of areas, with an egregious mis-count on Medicare savings to the tune of $563 Billion.

They sold this bill to the public as a bill to insure thirty-two million uninsured Americans, yet they do not cover these Americans for years. In fact, the thirty two-million includes illegal aliens, but we were told that no illegal aliens would be covered. What we were not told was that the next bill up in Congress, and they have started to work on this, is to provide amnesty for these illegal aliens, so they will be covered as well.

In this bill the Democrats have given the Secretary of Health and Human Services the authority and the marching orders 1,200 times to write her own rules for all sorts of health care, from payments to procedures, to insurance, to who is covered, to rationing, since thirty-two million newly insured will need to be covered by the same number of doctors who now practice – rationing will be necessary. The Secretary has now been given the ability to write law without Congressional oversight. Remember the Secretary is Kathleen Sibelius, who refused to take action against “Tiller the Baby Killer” when she was governor, because he contributed heavily to her campaign. “Tiller The Baby Killer” was one of two or three doctors in Kansas who would routinely abort late-term babies for frivolous reasons, before he was assassinated – these were babies who could have lived outside the womb.

This bill is actually a violation of Roe v. Wade – the Supreme Court decision that protected a women’s right to do with her body as she sees fit. This also applies to men who wish to do with their body as they see fit. Should men or women choose to not have health insurance and not to seek regular medical care, they have that right under Roe v. Wade. Read: Roe v. Wade to the Rescue: right to privacy or health care mandates.

One last item about this bill, is that you can search it high and low and you will find nothing in it that attempts to control the cost of health care. Why? Well, this bill is only intended to drive the health insurance companies out of business, leading to single payer universal health care, just as found in Canada and Great Britain. Until this happens, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is in control of the insurance companies.

The second big issue facing this nation is even more dangerous to us than health insurance reform:

The flagrant disregard for our Constitution by Congressional leaders and our President should be a warning to all. Speaker Pelosi actually laughed at a reporter who seriously asked if what she was proposing was Constitutional. At the minimum they have flouted the spirit of the Constitution and at the most egregious they have simply ignored it. The President is on record with his disdain for the Constitution, in that it does not offer mandates of what the government must do for its citizens.

It is clear that he and his cadre wish to rewrite our storied Constitution that currently prohibits our federal government from taking over the rights of people. This document prohibits the federal government from diminishing the states and Congress to roles as bit players in the governing of this country. It is clear that the current leadership in Washington feels inhibited by this Constitution – they cannot ignore the whole thing.

This progressive cadre wants to rewrite the Constitution and the way to do that is to create a national economic emergency the size of which has never been imagined. They will spend us into oblivion until our economy is broken and our free markets are teetering on collapse. Then and only then, to solve a national emergency, they will offer a solution to the problem that includes an even bigger federal government driven by an even bigger centralized executive branch. They will attempt to use the tragic events of a broken economy to rouse public interest to rewrite the Constitution.

Read an indepth look at how the progressives have attempted to marginalize and discard our Constitution in a bookblog dedicated to looking at what is wrong, why it is wrong, and what we need to do to fix the problem at U.S. Constitution – “Sine Die”.